In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data … source from Vietnam for 2002 to 2007, a period of significant transition. We address issues of simultaneity, self …-selection and endogenous location choice of firms in an estimation of firm level productivity. Controlling for competition effects …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an … extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self … productivity in foreign-owned firms and private domestic firms separately and find the former benefit more from exporting …

This paper uses Vietnamese firm-level data to examine the relationship between firm productivity and exporting. In … extensive prior literature. However, this paper finds no evidence that exporting affects productivity, which can be decomposed …